Cisco Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager 1.1 Data Sheet

 

 

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EPN Manager offers these main benefits: 

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Increased operational scale and efficiency through simplified, integrated, and automated device operations, 

network provisioning, and network assurance 

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Proactive service assurance and highly effective fault management and trend information to help providers 

avoid future service disruptions 

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Increased service agility through integrated lifecycle management and through standards-based northbound 

interfaces (NBIs) to third-party operations support systems (OSSs) 

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Management interface that provides a single, unified platform for network service provisioning, monitoring 

and assurance, and change and compliance management to accelerate device and services deployment 

and to rapidly resolve problems that can affect the end-user experience 

EPN Manager offers these main features: 

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Modern user interface with HTML 5.0 for a superior experience whether users are using a tablet or a 

traditional PC 

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Comprehensive, graphical views of the entire network, from the topology to the device level, with centralized 

inventory, status, and fault information  

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Automated discovery, device configuration, and change management with up-to-date displays of network 

events, states, and changes 

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Modern GUI with wizard-led workflows, topology-guided troubleshooting, and multilayer visualization 

(Figure 2) 

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Point-and-click provisioning for Carrier Ethernet, Layer 3 VPN, optical transport (including high-density 

Circuit Emulation), and service provider Wi-Fi (Figure 3) 

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Unique ability to discover network services, such as OTN circuits and Ethernet Virtual Connections, from 

the network and reconcile the discovered services with provisioning records or create a baseline of existing 

network services for brownfield deployments 

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Fault management for the underlying infrastructure with graphical correlation 

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Proactive network health monitoring, including network-level alarms, threshold crossing alerts (TCAs), 

metrics collection, and performance reporting 

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Multilayer management, performance monitoring, and provisioning 

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Geographic topology maps that provide critical, contextual views of network resources; users can easily 

toggle between geographic and abstract topology maps 

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Detailed chassis views that show the actual appearance and status of the physical configuration of network 

elements to facilitate the communication among operations center and onsite operations staffs and lend 

context when configuring device interface features